Good Sports Cars, Great Wallpaper!

<I>Motor Trend</I> recently road-tested four beautiful roadsters: an Audi TT, BMW Z4, Nissan 350Z, and Porsche Boxster S. If you can't decide which one you would want to have in your garage, here are downloadable wallpapers so you can have them all -- on y

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Basking in the magic of the sun, the moon, and a well-tuned exhaust, we flogged these four roadsters over winding California country roads to find out which ones are true players, and which ones are mere poseurs.

To read up on the four beautiful roadsters pictured here, and to find out which one took top honors in our comparison, grab the August copy of Motor Trend magazine, on newsstands beginning July 1, 2004.

Click on any of the images throughout this article to download your own 1024×768-pixel wallpaper-sized roadster to park on your computer screen. Once the large zoom images are open, right-click or click and hold on the image to save the file to your desktop.

2004 Nissan 350Z News and Reviews

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